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Trechery, -ie, Trichory, n. Also: trychery, tricherie, treacherye, treach(e)rie. [ME and e.m.E. tricherie (Ancr. R.), trecheri, trechori (both Cursor M.), treachery (1570), F. tricherie.] Treachery, betrayal.(a) 1375 Barb. i 377.
He wes in all his dedis lele, For him dedeynȝeit nocht to dele With trechery na with falset a1400 Leg. S. l 820.
I Thocht neuir to deile with trechery 1456 Hay I 245/27.
Gif trechery and falshede be maid till undo a lord … suppos he have plegis … thai can nocht bring him agayn fra dede to lyve 1456 Hay II 51/29.
Thai … ar unworthi cowartis, full of tresoun and falshede, barate and trechery 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 4.
To delyuer the innocent personis from sa perrillous tressounis and to disclois hir wickit trecherie 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 68.
Trecherie(b) 1456 Hay I 226/3.
That thare war ony feynit thing to spy, or othir wayis to ymagyne sum dissait or trychery c1460 Wisd. Sol. (STS) 226.
Trichory 1584 Cal. Sc. P. VII 294.
This double tricherie … geving him self furth to misknow [pr. miskrals] al thingis quhen he man be cheif author of all(c) 1636 Rep. Maxwell-Stuart Mun. in 9th Rep. Hist. MSS App. ii 261.
[He is] robbed of a dear son … by the creuell … treachrie of the Laird of Frendraught 1607 Calderwood VI 665.
Treacherie 1656 Johnston Diary III 30.
Treacherye